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Teresa Larkin, co-chair of the Pregnancy Care Alliance and executive director of Your Options Medical, a pregnancy center in the state speaks in support of pro-life pregnancy centers in Massachusetts.

Besieged Massachusetts pro-life pregnancy centers rally at state capitol

Jun 27, 2024

By Joe Bukuras

Clinic leaders and women who have been helped by pro-life pregnancy centers testified to the variety of ways these resources... Read more

A billboard sponsored by the Democratic National Committee with the message “Trump’s Plan: Ban Abortion, Punish Women” is pictured on May 1, 2024, in Hollywood, Florida.

Democrats pledge millions to fight pro-life laws in GOP-leaning states

Jun 27, 2024

By Peter Pinedo

Democrats have also launched a “Red State Fund” to advocate against existing pro-life laws. Read more

U.S. Supreme Court police officers put up barricades to separate pro-life activists (right) from abortion rights activists during a demonstration in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2024.

U.S. Supreme Court rules Idaho hospitals must perform abortions

Jun 27, 2024

By Peter Pinedo

The decision hinged on the court’s interpretation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). Read more

Statue of King Louis IX of France in Forest Park, St. Louis.

St. Louis parish appeals continue as Vatican upholds latest merger

Jun 27, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Clergy has upheld a decision by Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski to close a parish as part... Read more

Rachel Levine, then a nominee for assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies before her confirmation hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 25, 2021.

Biden administration pressured health care association to back sex changes for minors

Jun 26, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

Biden’s administration pressured at least one health care association to eliminate proposed guidelines that would have discouraged sex-change drugs. Read more

U.S. Capitol viewed through the columns of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

Supreme Court mistakenly leaks controversial abortion decision

Jun 26, 2024

By Peter Pinedo

“The court’s Publications Unit inadvertently and briefly uploaded a document to the court’s website,” a spokesperson for the Supreme Court... Read more

USCCB President Archbishop Timothy Broglio speaks at the bishops' spring meeting, Thursday, June 13, 2024.

U.S. bishops’ conference lays off several social justice staff members

Jun 26, 2024

By Peter Pinedo

Chieko Noguchi, a spokesperson for the USCCB, said “several” staff members serving in the Department of Justice, Peace, and Human... Read more

A general view of the Louisiana State Capitol on April 17, 2020, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Residents sue Louisiana to block state’s inclusion of Ten Commandments in schools

Jun 26, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

The coalition filed the lawsuit against members of the Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. Read more

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Delaware’s ‘medical aid in dying’ bill passes, heads to governor

Jun 26, 2024

By Matthew Balan

Despite the Delaware Legislature’s approval of the bill, it faces a possible veto from Gov. John Carney. Read more

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Sioux City Diocese to hold special collection after devastating Iowa floods

Jun 26, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

Sioux City Bishop Walker Nickless has established a flood victims relief collection to be taken in all diocesan parishes July... Read more

National Catholic Register Editor-in-Chief Shannon Mullen (left) and Catholic News Agency Editor-in-Chief Ken Oliver (right) flank Jeanette DeMelo (center), the executive director of the two EWTN News properties.

EWTN News divisions shine at 2024 Catholic Media Association awards

Jun 26, 2024

By Gigi Duncan, Ken Oliver-Méndez

The 2024 Catholic Media Association awards saw EWTN News properties garner top honors in 13 categories and 33 total awards.  Read more

Mary Rice Hasson with the Ethics and Public Policy Center speaks to “EWTN News Nightly” anchor Tracy Sabol on the Supreme Court, Tuesday, June 25, 2024.

Expert says Supreme Court should ‘do the right thing’ on child transgender procedures

Jun 26, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

The Supreme Court will review the 2023 Tennessee law that banned hormone therapy and puberty blockers for gender-confused minors. Read more

The National Eucharistic Pilgrimage passes southwest of Omaha, Nebraska, on June 21, 2024.

‘Breathtaking’: through the cornfields with Jesus in Nebraska Eucharistic pilgrimage

Jun 26, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

The route followed a gravel road, visible from Interstate 80, which crossed through cornfields amid the distant hum of semitrucks... Read more

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Oklahoma Supreme Court rules against Catholic charter school proposal

Jun 25, 2024

By Jonah McKeown

Oklahoma’s two Catholic bishops called the ruling “very disappointing.” Read more

Students and pro-life advocates gather at the Lincoln Memorial for a rally commemorating the second anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade on June 22, 2024.

A father shares the heartache of abortion at rally celebrating overturning of Roe v. Wade

Jun 25, 2024

By Gigi Duncan

Clementine, who was almost five months along, was “subjected to a second-trimester abortion without proper legal and ethical guidelines being... Read more

South Dakota Sen. John Thune speaks about his faith to “EWTN News Nightly” on June 24, 2024.

Top Republican senator says faith is ‘the foundation for pretty much everything I do’

Jun 25, 2024

By Kate Quiñones

Sen. John Thune told EWTN News that “at an early age, I made a profession of faith in Christ, and... Read more

Bishop-elect Scott Bullock (left) and Bishop-elect Dennis Walsh.

Pope Francis appoints new bishops of Rapid City, Davenport dioceses

Jun 25, 2024

By Daniel Payne

The Holy See said Father Dennis Walsh would head the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, while Father Scott Bullock would lead... Read more

Former U.S. President Donald Trump walks on stage to deliver the keynote address at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Policy Conference at the Washington Hilton on June 22, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

Trump pledges, if elected, to get jailed pro-life activists ‘back to their families’

Jun 25, 2024

By Tyler Arnold

Former President Donald Trump expressed his support for the pro-life activists who have been aggressively prosecuted and jailed under the... Read more

View of downtown Trenton, New Jersey.

Trenton Catholic Charities apologizes for sponsoring ‘beyond the gender binary’ book reading

Jun 25, 2024

By Joe Bukuras

“It is important to note that this event took place without the knowledge of or approval by [Trenton] Bishop David... Read more

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Groups ramp up election spending on anniversary of overturning of Roe v. Wade

Jun 24, 2024

By Peter Pinedo

A coalition of nine pro-abortion groups calling itself “Abortion Access Now” announced on Monday a campaign to spend $100 million... Read more